[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by bottomlander Dear mkirkpatrick, For years, I tried to think with Physics to construct TOE. The trouble is that even physics can construct good theories with or without equations, they are still not ultimate. There are only 2 approaches in Physics: Equations or Mechanisms. (Equations in Modern Physics are in spacetime and multi-dimensionality which expel physical reality. I am sure that Nature cannot manage Spacetime and multi-dimensionality. So, spacetime physics is not my taste.) (Once without equations, Physical mechanisms need lengthly Introductions to persuade others.) Recently, I try to employ philosophy approach for the Introductions. So far, more reasonable and readable. Regards. bottomlander

Thanks bottomlander,I would like to hear more of the philosophy approach you tried.
lengthly introductions are some times needed,not everyone is well aquainted with maths
and the symbols it uses.Maybe a brief synopsis would suffice.

regards michael

[mkirkpatrick]

Robert I think this forum is vastly different than it was at its inception,it has grown,and
attracted many to join up,sadly not all stay,maybe there is a way we could improve that?

Making a point of welcoming each new member is I feel important,and to a large extent I
think we do this,I know that for myself,I do try and send a welcome to all who sign in and
post.

I am sure that there is more that could be done,you have done a tremendous job so far
Robert,but you cannot do it all alone,we all need I feel to take some responsibility in making and maintainting this forum,so that it remains at the top of the forum web list!


regards michael.

[Spiral Path]

Hello, bottomlander and Michael -

It seems that the two of you are the ones most concerned about Robert's request for "breathing life into this forum" - and I applaud you for that. From the ingenious setup of this website I have also been able to learn that both of you have visited my blog but obviously found it rather boring and did not revisit it again. As Robert has pointed out, these attempts of presenting one's TOE is always "a work in progress" and therefore it takes a lot of time to condense 35 years of work into an easily understandable blog. I apologize for being so slow in my writing, but unfortunately I can only spend a couple of hours every day on it.

In any case, could the two of you perhaps advise me on how I could possibly "breathe life" into my blogs so that you (and everybody else who might visit them) will NOT get bored?

Originally Posted by bottomlander Dear mkirkpatrick, For years, I tried to think with Physics to construct TOE. The trouble is that even physics can construct good theories with or without equations, they are still not ultimate. There are only 2 approaches in Physics: Equations or Mechanisms. (Equations in Modern Physics are in spacetime and multi-dimensionality which expel physical reality. I am sure that Nature cannot manage Spacetime and multi-dimensionality. So, spacetime physics is not my taste.) (Once without equations, Physical mechanisms need lengthly Introductions to persuade others.) Recently, I try to employ philosophy approach for the Introductions. So far, more reasonable and readable. Regards. bottomlander

Well said, bottomlander, and I agree with all of it. No warped spacetime or multi-dimensionality for me either! All easily understandable physical mechanism, just somewhat improved with a few paradigm shifts. The implications are no Big Bang (sorry to all the defenders of the "Standard Model"), no relativity (sorry, Albert Einstein), no black holes (sorry, Stephen Hawking), no "missing" mass, no dark energy, no "expanding" universe, etc. The secret of my approach lies in the variable G with which I have worked for half a lifetime now and which correlates so well with the geological history of the Earth, as far as it is presently known.

And you can see, Michael, that I am already following your advice of "thinking out of the box" - way, way out in fact, so that nobody wants to believe me. I also have some personal experience with your favorite subjects, like consciousness, reincarnation and life after death - though I still take "ancient wisdom" rather as a guide and not as an indisputable "truth". I still prefer hard evidence to just hear-say, however ancient.

Robert promised to put my essay on "How Earthquakes are Triggered" somewhere into the category "Member Articles" as soon as he finds the time to do so. Then you may get a better idea on what I am working on. And when about 60% to 80% of the annual peak values of certain celestial parameters correlate with the magnitudes of past earthquakes, perhaps you can then understand why I so fervently believe that I have discovered one of Nature's secrets.

But what more can I do to arouse some greater interest than one-time blog visits among sophisticated TOE-seekers like you are? Please give me some of your ideas. I guess I just have to learn better "marketing" methods - but without lies.

Kind regards,
Spiral Path

[mkirkpatrick]

Spiral path,take heart my friend,I rarely ever look at my own,let alone anyone elses,I am
not that sure whether this blog idea is of any real value?I may be old fashioned,I can remember when telephones ran on steam-power!Some say its like a diary,could well be,
you just keep on doing the best you can,my old computer was gas operated you know.



regards michael.

[bottomlander]

Originally Posted by Spiral Path Hello, bottomlander and Michael - The secret of my approach lies in the variable G with which I have worked for half a lifetime now and which correlates so well with the geological history of the Earth, as far as it is presently known. Then you may get a better idea on what I am working on. And when about 60% to 80% of the annual peak values of certain celestial parameters correlate with the magnitudes of past earthquakes, perhaps you can then understand why I so fervently believe that I have discovered one of Nature's secrets. But what more can I do to arouse some greater interest than one-time blog visits among sophisticated TOE-seekers like you are? Please give me some of your ideas. I guess I just have to learn better "marketing" methods - but without lies. Kind regards, Spiral Path

Dear Spiral Path,

1) Sorry that I visited your blog because I felt curious/interest on your user name "Spiral Path".

Surprisingly, I believe that the natural paths in the Universe are spiral rather than stright or random segments. Once people make a list carefully, from subatomic scale to galaxetic scale, (electron orbiting to celestial orbiting) constrained spiral motions are more common than free motions along stright lines. (note: quantum mechanics denies electron orbiting)

2) I seldom, actually unable to, read academic journals. Anyhow, many years ago, I had already read some articles about the change of gravitational constant G. So, you are not alone.

3) Personally, I employ trials-and-errors methodology to develop and extend my theory. Years ago, I put into considerations upon your variable G as well as the more weird trial--expanding Earth.
(actually, I thought about the possibility of whether every elementary particle and thus every atom always expands or not when time goes on)
However, some seemingly better mechanisms appeared so I cut off those preliminary attempts.

4) As for the Marketing, after my last attempt to present my TOE theory to a famous physicist who visited my city and then got zero response (as usual). I suddenly got an idea that Philosophy community and Historians may be more open-minded and interested to those TOE articles without equations.
5) As for your professional works upon earthquakes, in my humble opinion, New Scientist www.newscientist.com (a leading weekly science magazine in UK) is a must for quality articles to try.

Regards. bottomlander

[mkirkpatrick]

Spiral path,just a added thing that occurs to me regard your name,Spirals are it seems the signature of natural law and its motionings,as I have seen shells no bigger than a full
stop on this page,when looked at under a magnifying glass,show perfect spirals!Truly wonderful to see,and knowing that these tiny spirals are in proportion and ratio the same
as a spiral galaxy trillions of times its size.Keep on trying,it will work out.


regards michael.

[Spiral Path]

Hello again, Michael and bottomlander -

Yippeeh ! I seem to have found two people who also think that spirals are one of Nature's common and most wonderful expressions. Thanks so much for taking the trouble to let me know.

Also many thanks for the encouraging words regarding my research as well as bits and pieces of suggestions and advice. Here are some remarks to them

Originally Posted by bottomlander Dear Spiral Path, 3) Personally, I employ trials-and-errors methodology to develop and extend my theory. Years ago, I put into considerations upon your variable G as well as the more weird trial--expanding Earth. (actually, I thought about the possibility of whether every elementary particle and thus every atom always expands or not when time goes on) However, some seemingly better mechanisms appeared so I cut off those preliminary attempts.

May I ask, bottomlander, what the conclusions in your research were when you tried out a variable G as well as alternately expanding and shrinking masses (which is, after all, a logical result of variable gravity caused by a variable G)? And what were those "better mechanisms" that you found?

4) As for the Marketing, after my last attempt to present my TOE theory to a famous physicist who visited my city and then got zero response (as usual). I suddenly got an idea that Philosophy community and Historians may be more open-minded and interested to those TOE articles without equations. 5) As for your professional works upon earthquakes, in my humble opinion, New Scientist www.newscientist.com (a leading weekly science magazine in UK) is a must for quality articles to try.

That's a good idea to turn to the possibly more open-minded philosophy community after such a disappointment with the often so closed-minded scientific community (I know that only too well as I had experienced many such disappointments myself). Good luck in your further research!

And thanks for your suggestion about the New Scientist. I'll try them once I get around to write an acceptable paper and get myself the proper software to include decent-looking sketches and graphs.

By the way, I once signed the "Letter to the Scientific Community" opposing the Big Bang that the New Scientist had published in the May 22, 2004 issue. That alone shows that their editors are a lot more open-minded than those of the other peer-reviewed technical journals.

Anyway, thanks again to the two of you for making me feel less alone in my struggle to find the TOE.

Kind regards, Spiral Path

[mkirkpatrick]

Thanks Spiral path,I really think you have something there,I urge you to persist in your
most worthy endevour,Focus and persistance are the attributes needed to suceed here,I
feel that you have a measure of both.

Nature expresses herself in spirals,from the exquisite shells that I found so very tiny but
displaying perfect spirals,to vast galaxies that spiral across the vastness of space,your
theory I believe expresses the very motion of this dynamic force.


regards michael.

[bottomlander]

Originally Posted by Spiral Path Hello again, Michael and bottomlander - Yippeeh ! I seem to have found two people who also think that spirals are one of Nature's common and most wonderful expressions. Thanks so much for taking the trouble to let me know. May I ask, bottomlander, what the conclusions in your research were when you tried out a variable G as well as alternately expanding and shrinking masses (which is, after all, a logical result of variable gravity caused by a variable G)? And what were those "better mechanisms" that you found? That's a good idea to turn to the possibly more open-minded philosophy community after such a disappointment with the often so closed-minded scientific community (I know that only too well as I had experienced many such disappointments myself). Good luck in your further research! And thanks for your suggestion about the New Scientist. I'll try them once I get around to write an acceptable paper and get myself the proper software to include decent-looking sketches and graphs. By the way, I once signed the "Letter to the Scientific Community" opposing the Big Bang that the New Scientist had published in the May 22, 2004 issue. That alone shows that their editors are a lot more open-minded than those of the other peer-reviewed technical journals. Anyway, thanks again to the two of you for making me feel less alone in my struggle to find the TOE. Kind regards, Spiral Path

Dear Spiral Path,

Readers should have recognized your professionality through your lines of thinking and wording.

1) Sorry that I hadn't read your article(s). The following is just my wild guess on this topic inspired by you.
Variable gravity G seems astonishing. However, its percentage of variation should be so small that its effect can only be (and better to be) tested by peaks of earthquakes. Our Earth is a big mass ready to us. And we have enough data on earthquakes. (To employ other masses needs too hgih precisions and might have erroneous interpretations.)

Actually, there are many things weirder than Variable gravity G. For example, scientists are perhaps still testing whether the speed of light varies thru long time or not.

Also, before the concept of gravity being established, if someone pointed out that our Earth was spheric, not flat, there would be too many negative reasons to kill that simple/obvious truth (as revealled long time ago by ancient Greeks already).

2) I am now using the model of rain-like frequent bombardments as the mechanism of gravity. Masses act like shields for another mass to recieve less bombardments and thus attraction resulted.
If dark matter or the likes have zonal differences, perhaps when Earth passing different zones periodically, peaks of rainy bombardments should be resulted also.

Regards. bottomlander

[Spiral Path]

Hello, Michael -

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick Thanks Spiral path,I really think you have something there,I urge you to persist in your most worthy endevour,Focus and persistance are the attributes needed to suceed here,I feel that you have a measure of both.

Wow! These words from such a record-breaking and seasoned forum poster like you, sure are a terrific encouragement to me and very much appreciated. I think I am going to tape them to my computer so that looking at them will always prevent me from giving up on my quest to find the elusive Theory of Everything.

Thanks a million for this great picker-upper!
Regards, Spiral Path